Overview
- EU leaders approved €90 billion for Ukraine’s 2026–2027 needs under EU guarantees, not by immediately confiscating frozen Russian assets, with Poland’s Donald Tusk saying the move improves Ukraine’s negotiating leverage.
- Russian overnight attacks in Odesa region cut electricity to about 74,500 customers and heat to roughly 85,000, damaged the Odesa‑Skhidna rail station and nearby housing, and prompted emergency repairs and backup power use.
- An explosive drone struck the Mаяки bridge on the Odesa–Reni route, killing a woman and wounding three children, disrupting cross‑border traffic with Moldova and forcing reroutes as authorities set up alternative corridors.
- Ukraine’s General Staff recorded 148 engagements by evening, with the heaviest fighting on the Pokrovsk and Kostyantynivka axes; 38 assaults were repelled near Pokrovsk, where Ukraine reported notable Russian personnel and equipment losses.
- Vladimir Putin touted control of multiple Ukrainian towns and denounced EU asset measures as “theft,” claims that Ukrainian officials and ISW disputed, while Russian authorities reported Ukrainian drone strikes in Orel, Samara and Rostov regions.